P’unk Avenue
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- 1168 E. Passyunk Aveneue
- Philadelphia PA 19147
- Phone: 215 755 1330
- hello@punkave.com
South by Southwestward
So I decided to submit a panel to SXSW this year. I'm not the most vocal/outspoken/social member of P'unk Ave, but I rank amongst the most opinionated. As the lead designer here I touch nearly all of our work,…
punkave.com is way cooler now!
Not to toot our horn or nothin, but we've just launched a new site for ourselves. At 6:05pm on the last business day of the year we've cobbled our children some new shoes. It was a lot of fun making…
Freedom Press
Non-fiction writers love to incorporate snippets of French in their prose. These petits fours provide emphasis, adding cachet to otherwise dry sentences. They are often italicized to avoid confusion and help the reader with pronunciation. After all, their purpose…
You Will Be Visited By Three Ghosts
The present is experienced through the senses, mostly realtime, with some delay/buffering. The past and the future are experienced nonlinearly in the mind, via memory and extension/projection. The computer doesn't do much for the present. It, and our interaction…
The Art Criticism Junto
Thursday April 23, 2009 The discussion which will begin at 7pm. Food and drink at 6pm. Please join us next Thursday, April 23rd at 6pm for the Junto. This month we will be discussing the past, present, and future…
Why People [I Know] Photograph
I talked with Isaac Schell after his recent opening about the motivation and inspiration for his pictures. At first he frame photography as a compulsion. A way to get an image out of his head. He later conceded that Garry…
Art Happens Today
6207 Market Photographs by Isaac Schell Stockbridge Fine Art Print 319 N. 11th 4th floor Friday April 3rd, 5-10pm Let's talk about art. Isaac Schell is a Drexel photo graduate, and also my housemate. He shoots with a 4x5" portable…
IDES 322: All Hands On Deck
Today we will revising and polishing each group's project objective copy and putting a finish on the Farm Philly branding material. You will decide on a domain for the project blog, purchase it, and with our help set up hosting.…
Make That Scrilla
I want to tell people how to run their businesses. Like agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky's irreverent consulting for Burger King—the ads featuring the King with the plastic head, the motocross chicken video game, talk of them writing a movie…
Designing While Intoxicated
To put a weary metaphor to rest, I will do my best to never again refer to absorbing the internet as drinking from a fire hose. At first I was reluctant to use Google Reader. Alex and John convinced…
IDES 322: A Day In The Life
With everyone well-rested after the break, we will be reviewing your instructables and gathering feedback about your experiences putting work out in the world. Our hope is to have the presence of an audience motivate the work and create…
To Have And To Hold
ZINES! What purpose do they serve now that everything is a blog? You actually have to go to a drop point to get a copy. It might even cost money. It doesn't alert you when new content is available.…
Simile For The Camera
I've been having an ongoing dialog/freakout with myself regarding authorship and creating content. My degree is in folding metaphorical envelopes and I'm tired of licking them. I want to be a letter writer, but I have nothing to say.…
A Conversation With Katie Murken
Katie Murken is a friend of P'unk Avenue. Geoff and Alex worked with her on the Debtor's Inheritance project two years ago. She is currently the head of 2D Foundations at Tyler School of Art, leading classes in digital…
The Upside of Static Cling
Last night, in considering possible post topics for today, I emailed myself the following: Creating space to experience art, Bresson walking slowly backwards out of the room so as you want to follow him, Eno wanting to leave things…
Open Call for Critical Models
A few reasons why I don't interact with contemporary art criticism: A lot of it sucks. To be more specific, a lot of it is self-serving. A lot of it has agenda of a White House Press Secretary, never…
Noise Appreciation with John and Rick
Last Saturday John and I saw Thurston Moore and Mats Gustafsson at the International House at 37th and Chestnut. Thurston is obviously most well known for his involvement in Sonic Youth, but has also spent the better part of thirty…
I'm not popular, just popular-curious
The notion of popularity used to be a hierarchical, fascistic one. Stereotypes were developed and fine-tuned in popular culture and broadcast media. We then absorbed them and the privileged among us went to the mall to buy what we were…
Fun with Contextual Semantics
So, the tricky people that defined the word semantics thought they could keep things simple by limiting its definition to the study of the literal meaning of words, leaving the interpretation of figurative meaning up to the folks in…
Post-Consumerist Waste and the Weapons of Mass Reproduction
I won't bore you with too much of a history lesson, but through a certain sequence of events we (you and I) have taken over the role of industry (since industry totally sucked in 2008). For the purpose of this…